Index and credits: 1. Drug addicts gather around fire to warm themselves, in a suburb of Tehran, Iran. (Ebrahim Noroozi / AP) 2. Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP drives through the sirty side of the track during day four of Formula One Winter Testing at Circuit de Catalunya in...

Index and credits: 1. A Libyan honor guard stands at attention during the arrival of U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon in Tripoli. 2. Deer rut in the early morning frost in Richmond Park in London, England. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images) 3. A generator in a powerhouse during th...

Index and credits: 1. Italian former legend of free diving swims up during an apnea course at deepest pool in the world for free and scuba diving. (Olivier Morin / Getty Images) 2. A shovel is placed over coal briquettes during a protest in front of the chancellery in Berlin. (Hanniba...

Index and credits: 1. A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula. (Vladimir Pushkarev / Reuters) 2. An aerial view of roads as mining trucks travel, Los Andes Mountain range, near Santiago. (Ivan Alvarado / Reuters) 3. Competitor...

Index and credits: 1. A man walks amidst tents set up on the floor of a gymnasium for parents of freshmen students at Tianjin University. (Stringer / Reuters) 2. An injured man looks on as he waits to be treated at a makeshift hospital in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast...

In this rubric we share global topical images selected according to a visual criterion, but no less splitted from their contexts of dichotomies and shades (joy and sorrow, violence and communion, love and hate etc.). This is life becoming landscape. Index and credits: 1. Rapa Das Best...